Las Deudas del Cuerpo (DOS Amigas 3)/ Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Neapolitan Novels, Book Three (Paperback)

from Laura400

Every bit as good as My Brilliant Friend, this third installment of the story recaptures the first installment's propulsive pace while chiseling further to bring out the themes and preoccupations of the work as a whole. It's really an extraordinary achievement, illuminating, excoriating and bruta...

from SamSattler

I recently completed The Story of the Lost Child, the fourth (and final) book in what has become known as the purposely-mysterious Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Series. The books explore the decades long friendship between two Italian women who met as children in one of the poorest neighborhoods in...

from lit_chick

2015, Blackstone Audiobooks, Read by Hillary Huber In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila have become women. Lila, who married at sixteen, has a son. But she has left her abusive marriage and is reduced to working as a common labourer. However, as always with Lila, I predict that her fort...

from lauralkeet

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the lifelong friendship between Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo. In this third book in the series, the women are in their mid- to late-twenties and their lives have diverged. Lila works in a factory in Naples, and Elena is a published author ...

from AlisonY

Number 3 in the Neapolitan novels series, and another belter. This one felt different to the first two - perhaps a little less 'good chick lit' and a little more in the direction of literary fiction. This part of the series is set in the 1960s / 70s, when political tensions in Italy between the F...